The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and Kazakhstan signed an agreement on 27 August establishing a bank of low-enriched uranium (LEU) at the Ulba Metallurgical Plant in Ust-Kamenogorsk in northeastern Kazakhstan. The bank, will be governed by Kazakhstan's laws but will be fully managed and operated by the IAEA. The Ulba plant has been handling and storing nuclear material, including LEU, safely and securely for more than 60 years.

• Russia
• International Atomic Energy Agency
• United States
• Uranium
• Ukraine
• Iran
• Nuclear fuel cycle
• Nuclear Threat Initiative
• Nuclear program of Iran

Source: NEI Magazine

Date: Friday, 28 August 2015

Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsiaea-fuel-bank-established-in-kazakhstan-4659461

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